Tek it ta bit’s

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Tek it ta bit's as my mate would say (hope Ive got the black country spelling)

I have a redundant sky + box so pulled it apart not a lot in there but there was a nice 500 Gb Seagate hard drive useful if only for the magnet

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[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

the power supply used to be a separate board – this could possibly be enclosed in a small box and supply one of the small micro processors.

The hard drive can be reused but these days SSDs are considerly faster and lower power

[Adam MaraParticipant @adammara]

Great magnets inside the HD, use one to reset my max/min thermometer in the greenhouse!

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Posted by Frances IoM on 05/04/2023 18:20:44:
the power supply used to be a separate board – this could possibly be enclosed in a small box and supply one of the small micro processors.

The hard drive can be reused but these days SSDs are considerly faster and lower power

Missed the power supply haven't junked the boards yet so will have a look tomorrow

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[old martParticipant @oldmart]

I have a redundant SKY+ box with a 1.5 terrabyte drive in it. The 300 Gb drive out of my older SKY box is in the pc that we have in the workshop at the museum, 30000 hours and still in pristine working order according to Crystal disk info. I dont use spinning hard drives at home any more and SATA SSD's are also old hat now that M2's rule.

Edited By old mart on 05/04/2023 20:41:41

[JellyParticipant @jelly]

Posted by old mart on 05/04/2023 20:39:27:

I dont use spinning hard drives at home any more and SATA SSD's are also old hat now that M2's rule.

Edited By old mart on 05/04/2023 20:41:41

My Z-Book has a 256Gb M2 SSD as the boot drive with most of my important software and in use files on it, and a 2Tb 5400 RPM SATA HDD for infrequently used programs and archived files…

Using anything on stored on the HDD feels like wading through treacle by comparison.

Despite being nearly a decade older, the Z-Book with the M2 works out faster than my work laptop which uses a SATA SSD for anything which relies on large amounts of stored data.

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